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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Tina SikkaORCiD, Maia Almeida-Amir, Sara Al Derham Alderham
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© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article reflects the outcome of semi-structured interviews conducted in early 2022 with UK patients who had Covid-19, interfaced with healthcare system because of this, and self-identified as a fat woman (cis or trans) with at least one other vector of marginality (race, ethnicity, dis/ability, class, or sexuality). The rationale for the project was to complexify and advance ongoing studies into the experience of fat women in UK health care settings with research that focuses on Covid-19 using an intersectional approach. This has been done by centering the narratives of individuals whose identities are made more complex as a result of the overlapping positions of marginalisation they inhabit. From our interviews with five self-identified fat women, we drew out themes of healthism, hyper(in)visibility, fat stigma, and intersectionality, which are explored here using inductive thematic analysis, putting the experiences of our participants in conversation with fat studies literature.
Author(s): Sikka T, Almeida-Amir M, Alderham S
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Forum for Social Economics
Year: 2024
Pages: Epub ahead of print
Online publication date: 18/12/2024
Acceptance date: 08/05/2024
Date deposited: 06/01/2025
ISSN (print): 0736-0932
ISSN (electronic): 1874-6381
Publisher: Routledge
URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/07360932.2024.2430355
DOI: 10.1080/07360932.2024.2430355
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